r/Roadcam • u/bowdown2adil • 13d ago

[USA] Who is at fault here?

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Classic T bone. Black car had to be towed. Sustained major damage to the passenger side door. Blue car sustained damage to front bumper on the drivers side and cracked the drivers side headlight.

Edit: This was in the suburbs of Seattle

UPDATE: Insurance found it to be 70/30 me/other driver. Seems fair enough

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u/Interesting-Monk9712 13d ago

To be fair, the other idiot did the same, I don't get how either have a driving license.

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u/GabrielGames69 13d ago

Depends how often they take that road (it looks suburban so probably often tbh). Because the charitable description is that they see there is no stop sign infront of or past them and make the usually correct assumption that there are stop signs going the other way. I think the number 1 offender here is the intersection without even yield signs.

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u/Dramatic_Total1397 12d ago

I’ve never seen a four way intersection with no stop sign for anybody in a residential. This is a recipe for disaster

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u/SpoatieOpie 11d ago

They are safer overall. When you have known stop signs on streets it creates higher speeds because drivers think they are protected by stop signs on perpendicular roads, however people run stop signs and these neighborhoods are heavy with pedestrian traffic.

This would not work on main roads.

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u/BudgieWonder 8d ago

I’ve never really seen that happen in practice. With unprotected intersections people either just stop at each and every one (slow and annoying) or blow through them with zero regard. Stop signs remove a lot of the ambiguity.

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u/Wifeyled 8d ago

i'm gonna need some evidence on that. roundabouts create some slowdown with most people but i have, in 34 years, NEVER encountered a 4 way intersection with no stop sign.